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09Apr
A Feliz Friday indeed for I am off to Miami for a long weekend!
Seeing the sights and my cousin who resides in the city known as “the gateway to the Americas”. Having never been to South Florida, I’m pretty excited to see the Art Deco buildings, eat some Cuban cuisine, lie on some beaches, and watch the roller skaters glide by (my vision of Miami may be off…)
Miami Beach is waiting for me! See you all on Tuesday!
(photo found here)
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24Mar
There are many beautiful vintage postage stamps out there but these few caught my eye and made go “ooo…”
Bulgarian stamps via Grain Edit
Vintage Uruguay stamp
Vintage Israel stamp
Czech Vintage Stamp
(Uruguay, Israel, and Czech stamps found here)
These stamps from Romania didn’t make me go “ooo…” but I did giggle at the creepy kittens when I found them (here)
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18Feb
I did a little dumpster diving yesterday and scored this classic beauty:
I was thinking of reupholstering and painting it — thoughts? It seems to have already been reupholstered awhile ago because of the trimming along the border. I know that this is probably a job for the professionals but hey, I’m all about jumping in and trying projects out! I haven’t gotten anything to lose on this chair since I got it in the dumpster. It may take awhile for me to learn but I love a challenge!
This before and after from Design Sponge Online is something similar and pretty killer to what I was thinking:
I love this color combo:
Love that Scandinavian print too…
(found in Colette Patterns)
Or maybe I should try and do a pop of color with this bright turquoise:
(found here)
Or a bright, cheery yellow like this one:
(found here)
What are your ideas?
Tags: recycled
Category: around the home, vintage // 6 Comments
11Feb
Maybe it’s all of this snow around me but I wish I were in a mangrove of citrus right now with the warm sun above me. I keep noticing the citrus in design lately so I thought I should highlight a few.
(orange stamp Sugarskull7)
(Vintage Containers Team Ruster) (sidenote: are they now vintage? I think my mother still has these…)
Coasters by Gracefell
(An orange letterpress card by Paper Peony)
(illustration from antique bontanical book Mon Jardin)
Category: around the home, illustration, letterpress, vintage // 2 Comments
24Dec
I hope everyone has a wonderful, happy, safe, and delicious Christmas! I’m heading home to PA where homemade German cookies and sweet breads await me! Yum! Here are some fun (and funny) vintage cards to get you in the Christmas spirit:
( Neko scratch pad )
See you after the holidays!
Tags: holiday
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03Dec
The Smithsonian Magazine has an exhibition currently of Holiday greeting cards handcrafted by some pretty famous artists. They were intended for private use; to send out to their friends and family. How cool would it have been to receive a Christmas card from old pal Calder?
( Artist Alexander Calder )
( Artist Frederick Hammersley )
( Artist Philip Guston )
( Artist Philip Reisman )
( Artist Max Weber )
( Sage, wife of Artist Yves Tanguy )
( Artist Abril Lamarque )
( Artist William Zorach )
* observation: They really liked using the “XMas” wording, didn’t they?
05Oct
Hello readers! I apologize for the looong break between updates. I have been away from a computer for all this time. But I’m back and will be updating daily again! Hurray!
I did manage to watch a couple of episodes of Ken Burns’ National Parks documentary though… and love love love it. I’m catching up with the full episodes online!
As you can tell, I love camping and nature so I am excited to watch the rest. The interviewers say exactly how one feels (or at least how I feel) about these parks and our natural environment in the U.S. I think one said that visiting these parks, being in nature, was like “coming home”. I loved that.
Yosemite has a special place in my heart because I’d visited there so many times as a kid.
I tried to find some graphic design inspired by our nation’s parks but found very few. Anyone know of any?
I did find these BEAUTIFUL posters of the Bay Area. Wouldn’t they look so snappy as a set? They are (and many more) available for purchase at the Parks Co. — and printed on recycled paper! yay!
Also available from the same site are these repos of some WPA posters from the late 1930s, advertising the National Parks, which look pretty spectacular.
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